the.com/forever
a promise made entirely of moments that haven't betrayed you yet.
means For all future time, without ending; or, more loosely, an exhaustingly long stretch of waiting.
from A squashing-together of the Middle English phrase 'for ever' — 'for' in the sense of 'throughout,' and 'ever,' from Old English 'æfre,' meaning 'always' or 'at any time.' The two words walked side by side for centuries before fusing into one in the 1600s, which is fitting: a word about endlessness that itself refused to stay separate.
- physics says
- the universe will outlast forever as heat death
- diamonds lie
- that slogan was a 1947 ad campaign
- half-life
- some atoms outlive trillions of universe lifetimes
- linguistics
- most languages lack a true word for it
- human scale
- the brain can't actually imagine endless time